Lets face it. We are small fish in the big pond of the universe. While some might call mankind a civilization of petty and negative minds, many of us dream of "first contact" with higher powers (e.g. They could be the "mysterious bug-eyed greys" or the bored superbeings in the "Q Continuum".).

If I was running a class on "Alien Encounters 101", I would divide the aliens into super civilizations of one kind or another. "The Greys", "The Nephilim" and "The Marcabs" would be highlighted. They are advanced humanoid civilizations who are using mankind for mind control experiments and/or genetic manipulation. To them, we're probably the lab-rats of the universe.

On a higher level would be the spiritual/magical world of Melchizedek. This could also be called "The New Universe of Jesus Christ". I've written many entries on this timeless existence. The links are in the column on the right.

Alien Encounters is a great adventure into the unknowns of your mind and the universe. Be willing to explore and gain your own understanding on this subject.

We all have to live somewhere so why not a detached house that you can buy at a reasonable price which will appreciate in time. For those in the U.S. it looks like there's some great bargains available now.

My wife and I did that in 1996 when we bought our first house (a townhouse) near the bottom of the market. We then sold the townhouse for a "so-so profit" a few years later and bought a detached house in central Brampton for a decent price. Through the next five years, we renovated our house throughly: This includes a new roof, vinyl siding, renovated washrooms(3 of them), renovated bedrooms, new furnance, new A/C, etc.

From the time we purchased it to now, I'd say our house appreciated by $90,000. That's not great, but it's a reasonable rate of return. When we sale our house at some distant future time, we'll get every penny out of it. There are no taxes owing when you sell your principle resident in Canada.

Back in the old days, the biggest betting sport was "Horse Racing" than the Greyhounds came along and it was "Dog Racing". Gamblers have even bet on frogs and turtles.

Today, the biggest game in town is "Sheep Racing". These are bets on where sheep will move their money. Usually, they move their cash into or out of certain stocks with the help of "financial experts" who are riding them. In a bull market, they're chasing "the next big thing", "the flavor of the month" and "the bubble in front of them" that keeps getting bigger.

In a bear market, they're just trying to avoid getting killed after they've been "fleeced".

The threat of a nuclear attack was very real during the 1950s and 1960s. The weapons became bigger and bigger with each test and there were enough of them to wipe out mankind many times.

The only time I really felt a sense of doom was during the Cuba Missle Crisis (October/1962) when President Kennedy confronted Soviet Premier Khrushchev over the deployment of missles in Cuba. Fortunately, the crisis was averted but most of the boomers felt that nuclear war could happen at anytime.

Personally, I feel, the emotional intensity/creativity of this time was brought on not only by the threat of massive global destuction, but the subconscious memory of it in a previous lifetime.

We know that information can be compressed into tiny bits and bytes on a hard drive. In a human being, I believe that pictures and sounds can contain our memories. This is "subatomic memory". Within my own subconscious, 50s and 60s rock songs brought back memories of an ancient civilization destroyed by nuclear weapons.